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Nutanix enables JM Finn to lower operational costs and reduce carbon footprint

Published in Cloud

Delivers accelerated performance, operational savings and improved efficiency.

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Vantage Data Centers opens Hong Kong office

Published in Hosting + Colocation

New location supports investment and expansion across Asia Pacific.

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Iceotope study with Meta reveals efficiency of precision immersion liquid cooling

Published in Power & Cooling

First known study to test precision immersion cooling for high-density data storage successfully demonstrates efficiency.

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Kingfisher chooses Google Cloud

Published in Cloud

Google Cloud will support Kingfisher’s digital ambitions with a range of solutions, from infrastructure to data analytics.

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South Lanarkshire Council slashes carbon emissions with IT upgrades

Move to DataVita data centre helps cut energy use by 94%.

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Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud

Streamlines the operation of its annual Christmas campaign to support the homeless.

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MainOne, an Equinix Company’s MDXi Appolonia achieves Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF)

With this new milestone, MDXi Appolonia becomes the leading data center provider in Ghana with the top 4 certifications in the industry.

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Africa Data Centres to build its first data centre in Kigali, Rwanda

The data centre will have 2MW of IT load and will be purpose-built to meet growing demand in the region.

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Africa Data Centres provides colocation for the first ICANN Managed Root Server in Africa

IMRS cluster deployment is intended by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to assist Internet users in Africa to have faster access to services on the Internet; Africa Data Centres (https://www.AfricaDataCentres.com/) has been selected as the host of the IMRS cluster at their class-leading Kenya data centre facility.

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Legrand strengthens UPS portfolio with Power Control acquisition

Legrand has strengthened its foothold in the UK critical power market with the acquisition of Sheffield-based uninterrupted power supply (UPS) specialist, Power Control Ltd.

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Data centre investment and Covid-19 - catalysts for accelerated cloud adoption in Africa

Console Connect has launched the second edition of its Africa Interconnection Report, researched by analyst firm Balancing Act, to understand the drivers and barriers to cloud adoption in the region.

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Boost for Shanghai data centre to help keep China’s billion+ internet users connected

ABB power solutions support one of Shanghai’s largest data centres, used by Tencent and China Telecom.

The HEAT is on when it comes to cybersecurity

Mark Guntrip, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Strategy at Menlo Security, discusses his company’s recent ransomware research report, highlighting the ways in which the cybercriminals are getting smarter, and outlining some of the ways in which end users can optimise a multi-layered cyber-defence strategy.

AI’s image problem - Fivetran

Guro Bakkeng Bergan, VP and GM EMEA at Fivetran, discusses a recent Vanson Bourne report, conducted on behalf of Fivetran, which reveals that almost all companies recognise the importance of AI and, therefore, have plans to invest in the technology, but at the same time do not completely trust it, and also experience difficulty obtaining the data sets which are the ‘raw ingredients’ of successful AI implementations.

A new kind of hybrid cloud?

Andrew Slater, Practice Director - Cloud, at Node4, discusses the company’s recent Future of Hybrid Cloud report, which finds that the majority of end users are beginning to understand which workloads belong in the public cloud and which don’t. Alongside the development of this ‘traditional’ hybrid approach, Andy highlights the emergence of a new hybrid cloud model, with public cloud provider software being introduced into end users’ own IT environments.

Spotlight on Women in IT - Episode 25 - NS1

Interview with Emily Nerland, Head of Global Sales at NS1. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.

News

Nutanix enables JM Finn to lower operational costs and reduce carbon footprint

Vantage Data Centers opens Hong Kong office

Iceotope study with Meta reveals efficiency of precision immersion liquid cooling

Kingfisher chooses Google Cloud

South Lanarkshire Council slashes carbon emissions with IT upgrades

Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud

MainOne, an Equinix Company’s MDXi Appolonia achieves Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF)

Africa Data Centres to build its first data centre in Kigali, Rwanda

Africa Data Centres provides colocation for the first ICANN Managed Root Server in Africa

Legrand strengthens UPS portfolio with Power Control acquisition

Data centre investment and Covid-19 - catalysts for accelerated cloud adoption in Africa

Boost for Shanghai data centre to help keep China’s billion+ internet users connected

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The HEAT is on when it comes to cybersecurity

AI’s image problem - Fivetran

A new kind of hybrid cloud?

Spotlight on Women in IT - Episode 25 - NS1

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